The waning gibbous Moon approaches the star Aldebaran at an occultation on the morning of September 12

The waning gibbous Moon approaches the star Aldebaran at an occultation on the morning of September 12, 2017 This is a multiple exposure composite of the ingress phase that occurred before sunrise, with the Moon from the final exposure and the star from exposures taken at 4-minute intervals prior to that last exposure For the actual ingress I switched to HD movie to shoot a video of the event Exit at egress occurred after sunrise in a bright sky Shot from home with the 130mm Astro-Physics apo refractor with the Canon 60Da. (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VW Pics/UIG via Getty Images)